The Eastern Parkway, also known as the West Indian Day Parade, along with J’Ouvert, all part of the Brooklyn Carnival, holds an wide assortment of Caribbean music and Caribbean dance. There is a massive audience partaking in these events that happen around the Labour Day weekend, where many people choose to participate in both. The parades are held annually, as they produce and embody different types of music. To this music, many people can be seen dancing and just enjoying themselves, “J’Ouvert affords moments of deep mas, the essence of street Carnival. This feeling of communal transcendence is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve during the more formal Panorama competition, a performance setting where players remain stationary and spatially separated…” (Allen 267). The music ranges from deejay music, to the music produced by steel pas instruments where the “party” lasts for almost an entire day, starting very early on in the night, if not the morning. Dance in this carnival can be seen as “a significant number of masqueraders and Carnival enthusiasts, particularly middle-aged and older, prefer “jumping up” to pure pan” (Allen 267).

Thousands upon thousands of people can be seen dancing, and as the day progresses, more and more people are able to join and dance alongside the Caribbean music playing. The point of this parade is to celebrate the Caribbean culture that is present in New York, and apart from food, music, and dressing up, dance becomes an important part to it. Different types of dances can be seen being performed by people, with no limitations or restrictions. And what’s even more is the fact that as these people are dancing, with pride, their sense of pride can be seen and is manifested in an addition to their clothing, as they somehow attach their native flag to their outfit. The flag is then waved around in a sheer sense of pride and this can be seen in the video below of the Carnival. One thing to note here, is the similarity of this waving of the flag as was seen with the dance performed at the City College of New York as part of Caribbean week, as the dancers too were waving their flags with pride.